Could Not Recommend More - Graphic Designer Sourcebooks Employee Review

I worked on all kinds of marketing collateral for them while on contract. They are such positive, kind people. Fair pay and so many free books! The office itself is so colorful and creative.

No downsides since I was a contractor for a few months. If they had an open position for full time designer I would have been tempted to take it!

In hindsight, I'm not sure if there were any apart from some friendly coworkers.

I infuriatingly see promotions handed out left and right via LinkedIn, but just know that actually being someone to get to that level means literally grovelling and being lucky enough to be in the good graces of the egotistical CEO. Upper management brown-noses her as their main job, and they will prevent you from any upward mobility if you're not one of her favorites (which seems to be picked based on how much you kiss up to her, and if you keep your own opinions to yourself, and other factors entirely unrelated to your actual performance). Absolutely criminally high monthly healthcare premiums, paired with insanely high deductibles, bare-minimum PTO, and mat leave. HR is a joke and not one HR employee seems to last very long. Salaries are abysmal, even by publishing standards. Most books acquired are bottom-of-the-barrel since they don't pay most of their authors much, and they have to be edited within an inch of their lives to be readable and marketable. I left the industry after this company and have never been happier.